{"id":341892,"date":"2013-05-03T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T04:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/give-and-it-will-be-given-to-you-it-works\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:09:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:09:10","slug":"give-and-it-will-be-given-to-you-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/give-and-it-will-be-given-to-you-it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Give and it will be given to you. It works!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cSandro told me one of his experiences. <\/strong>He, his wife, a 14 year-old son, a 12 year-old daughter and their two year-old son went to the market for some groceries. One day they were selling artichokes for 3 Euros and everyone in the family agreed that they should buy some!!! \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

After buying all that they needed, the family met a poor woman on their way home<\/strong>. She spoke to the Dad: \u201cWould you give some artichokes? I don\u2019t have anything to eat.\u201d<\/p>\n

In agreement with the family, his wife Joy gave the woman 5 artichokes.<\/p>\n

The daughter of Sandro spoke up to her father: \u2018If this woman asks for artichokes from lots of people. . . maybe it wouldn\u2019t be so fair. . .\u2019\u00a0 Her father responded: \u201cWe try to do good to others. Then she\u2019ll have to answer to her own conscience for the way she acts.\u201d With that they returned home happy with their purchases. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The next day while Sandro was in church <\/strong>making a little visit to Our Lady and asking for her help because he had to buy eyeglasses for his son and didn\u2019t have any money, his telephone rang. It was a total surprise: an old acquaintance to whom he had lent some money many years earlier. The friend wanted to return the money to him now!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The amount was exactly the amount need for the eyeglasses. <\/strong>The Gospel says: \u201cGive and it will be given to you.<\/a>\u201d But the One who exchanges the gift is truly a gentleman, the\u00a0 Lord.\u201d\u00a0 (A.DN – Italy)<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Word of Life<\/a> is really true! The other day I was on my way to work. One of the employees asked me for a small amount of money, which I willingly gave. These days we\u2019re working (I\u2019m a teacher) even though the schools are closed. When I went to receive my salary, I was surprised to see that the administration had paid us an amount that we hadn\u2019t expected. It was 5 time more than the amount I had lent to that other employee.\u201d \u00a0 (K. – USA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daily life experiences from people of all ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}